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MITROVICA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s hard-line Serb leaders formed their own parliament Saturday, ignoring Kosovo’s declaration of independence and defying its United Nations administrators.
The action in the Serb- controlled half of the divided town of Mitrovica represents an attempt by the Serbs to split the disputed territory, which they claim as their own despite the Kosovo Albanian majority’s Western-backed secession in February.
The assembly consists of 45 Serb representatives elected in Serb local elections in Kosovo, held in May. Serbs control about 15 percent of Kosovo’s territory in the southeastern corner of Europe.
